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From Good Idea to Great Proposal: Tips for Success at Confirmation of Candidature . Dr Leonie Rowan Deputy Head of School (HDR &amp; Postgraduate Studies) School of Education and Professional Studies. What’s the point of confirmation?.

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It’s like looking for the best person to cook a French banquet or the best person to design a new garden: people want to know that you know what you’re talking about: that you know what a French banquet is: or that you know the difference between a Zen Garden and a cottage garden and a Australian native garden

This means you need to include literature even if you don’t agree with it: you can’t just ignore people 

Don’t get side tracked with CONTEXT

EG: If I want to study teachers’ attitudes towards Smart Moves, I probably need to give some background about Smart Moves: this happens in my introduction or a separate section called Background: NOT the literature review: if its not talking about RESEARCH or SCHOLARSHIP it doesn’t belong here

A literature review shows you are familiar with research and writing about your topic/key words

Your theoretical framework & methodology shows you are familiar with research and writing about RESEARCH: the hows/whys/wheres/whens….it can involve taking about research design, theoretical framework, methodology and methods

Reflects our beliefs about knowledge and truth—about what is important, what is valuable, what is valid etc etc

Different people, with different perspective on research—people with different theoretical frameworks, or from different paradigms, will do totally different things even if looking at the same problem, or the same context.

You need to explain not just WHAT you are going to do but WHY that is a legitimate way to do research

You may well never have used words like ontology and epistemology: but you need to know basically what they mean: and that the decisions you make about how to research reflect beliefs about what counts as knowledge, whether you are aware of it or not!

Acknowledge straight up that you know that ‘research’ is a broad term; that there are multiple perspectives on what counts as ‘valid’, ‘legitimate’, ‘significant’ research

That within the literature on your topic there is enormous variation in how people go about collecting and interpreting data

Then link yourself to a methodological tradition by saying “as a researcher I align myself with perspectives associated with case study AS DEFINED BY Robert Stake: connect yourself to big names. Then any problem with the terms is a problem with someone other than you!

There are many different perspectives on what counts as ‘good’, ‘valid’, ‘legitimate’ research

There are many different perspectives on what counts as ‘good’, ‘valid’, ‘legitimate’ data

In preparing a confirmation document you need to make clear the kind of research YOU are doing, the research paradigm YOU are aligned with, the methodology that YOU are using, and how these all make sense together

More details of the confirmation process and paperwork that needs to be completed by students are available at: http://www.griffith.edu.au/higher-degrees-research/current-students/candidature/requirements/confirmation Completed documents should be emailed to rhd-confirmation@griffith.edu.au.

For candidate expectations (including details of what the seminar must address), please see http://www.griffith.edu.au/higher-degrees-research/current-students/candidature/requirements/confirmation. For expectations of the principal supervisor, confirmation panel, and HDR convenor, please see http://www.griffith.edu.au/higher-degrees-research/current-students/candidature/requirements/confirmation/staff-responsibilities.